Nature Walks – Gardens of Glory – Part 1 – The Brunner House

Right now, so many gorgeous flowers are popping up all over the place. They are so beautiful and they smell so good too. It’s hard NOT to enjoy all their beauty. Beauty is all around. I am loving every beautiful and colorful moment too.

On Sunday night, Larry and I joined some friends to cheer on and support another mutual friend of all of ours and his band, Dive Bar Diva. They were playing at a local historic old farmhouse, called the Brunner House. The band did a great job, despite a brief, unplanned little spurt of rain. Our friend Warren is the base player.

I had never been to the Brunner House before, though I always had wanted to go. Once there, before the band started, I toured around the area. The Brunner House is also known for its beautiful gardens, and that they were too. So yesterday, before it got too hot, I went back on my own, just for the gardens.

This is the house. It was moved from another nearby location years ago and preserved through the Historic Foundation, as being one of the oldest known farmhouses in the area. I have been fascinated with this charming little house since I first arrived in Colorado. Before I knew its history, I was hoping it was a house for sale, and I wanted it. But it is a museum, for everyone’s enjoyment, not just mine. This alone is quite a beautiful site, but the gardens were breathtaking.

This is one of the fields behind the house. You would never know by looking at it that you are actually in the middle of the city of Broomfield. Broomfield got its name from the broom wheat that was grown in the area.

And the gardens. I call this a Garden of Glory, not just because of how magnificent the gardens were, but also because of the plaques and memorials for 3 of the Brunner family members who served in WWII as well as other military personnel from other times too. The Brunner House was 1 of 3 “Gardens of Glory” I visited yesterday. I had no idea about any of them until I got there. I was just touring around taking pictures of all the beautiful flowers and gardens.

This garden is called “the learning garden” and it is a working, teaching garden for kids of all ages.

I call these the picnic gardens. These were around the house and in and around the patio area where the picnic tables were located.

There were so many beautiful Irises, of all colors. My mother would have loved them all.

There were so many beautiful roses too.

And now the beautiful, colorful gardens. They were all broken into color specific sections. There was a yellow section, a white section, a red/orange section and a purple section. There were different floral varieties in each section, but all were color coordinated.

I think the purple section was the largest, with the most variety.

There was even a rock garden that was called the kindness garden. The intent is for people to keep adding colorful rocks to the garden to promote kindness to all.

The Brunner House is free for anyone who wants to enjoy all it has to offer. It is definitely worth the trip to see and walk around through all of its glory, especially at this time of year, with all the beautiful flowers in bloom. Color your world beautiful, today, tomorrow and everyday.